Here’s a look at the sytems report generated by our firewall software since it was installed July 20. Its a bit “techy”, but some of you may be interested to see how much activity goes through our connections. Clicking on a graph will open an enlarged view. FYI – Our current connection allows for receiving and sending […]
It’s been a fairly uneventful week for IT issues. The two biggest issues have been phishing & scams and slow internet. As a reminder for the phishing & scams, don’t click on links inside questionable emails. Review the Phishing Gallery if you still are not sure what a questionable email looks like. Also, if you visit […]
Tuesday’s Internet outage As I’m sure you all noticed, we had a major internet outage on Tuesday. We started with intermittent disruptions until the system completely failed by 10:28 am and stayed down until nearly 7 pm. The good news is that it wasn’t a fault of any of our equipment or firewall settings. The bad news is […]
‘Tis the season for online scams… As you contemplate your holiday gift list, online scammers are anticipating your business. Although it’s always a good idea to be mindful of where you do your online shopping, the holiday season is a time where many people get into trouble. Only shop reputable sites. If you aren’t sure about a […]
No major issues this week. Though I’ve got to say that ‘slow’ seems to be the new normal for our internet speed. They have not reported any specific issues, so I don’t know why this is the case. I have requested a status update. Besides the speed issue, phishing scams are still a problem. Here’s […]
It’s been a relatively calm week for IT issues. That said, there are a few of items to mention. 1 – I received a notice late Monday evening (10/30) that there was another disruption to Frontier’s trunk line that services some of the K-20 locations including “Wenatchee REC” (how we are identified on their network). The […]
Apparently, October was Cyber Security Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The office of US-CERT (US Computer Readiness Team, a division of Homeland Security) prepared some documents with tips for both systems administrators and regular people. One of the documents had some “simple” tips that many people don’t think about but should […]
It’s been a challenging week for the campus IT security group. First, there was a continuation of attacks on the system and the associated “fixes”. Some of their fixes lead to other problems, such as some people losing their connection to Office 365 and shared drives either completely or intermittently. The fixes will be ongoing […]
Things seem to be working OK this week with the video conferencing system. I emailed Bill Bonner and told him about the concerns with the microphones. The first concern is that in Stockwell, the location of the mic prevents some people from being heard i.e., sitting in a position where the mic is behind them. […]
As you all probably noticed, we had some internet issues this week. The good news: none of it was Center related. The bad news: it was completely out of our control. The problem was a result of a “Distributed Denial of Service” (DDoS) attack on Pullman’s systems. Although I did notice some interference (pixelation) to […]